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GOSSIP OF THE RIALTO; JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT

APPARENTLY Eugene O'Neill is starting on his second shelf of written but unproduced plays. First, there is that cycle of eight, or nine, or a dozen, which he plans to finish before allowing any single unit to reach Broadway. Second, there is the work known as "The Iceman Cometh," outside the cycle and a possibility for next season.

January 18, 1942

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